Word: nailed
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...BarMedia, a well-known consultant, say, "Oh, my goodness." But it tastes like ... vodka. Its importer, Sylvia Scherer, of West Import & Export in Kenai, Alaska, is marooned near the back of the hall, far from big corporate booths pushing Stoli Cranberi vodka and Tarantula Azul tequila. Scherer struggles to nail down distribution beyond Alaska, California and Georgia. "One of these days everybody's going to discover us," she says. For now, she swims against a purple, berry-flavored tide. --With reporting by Julie Rawe/New York
Bashar sought to placate the Bush Administration by helping nail some al-Qaeda suspects after 9/11. But the closer the U.S. came to war in Iraq, the more Bashar played to the Arab gallery. He denounced U.S. aggression and hailed Iraq's resistance. His performance enthralled the Arab street, where demonstrators chanted, "Bashar, Bashar, set the world on fire!" But it deep-sixed Syria's relations with...
Jacob Gastlyn came to Harvard Square in a taxi. He was afraid to take the T from the Fenway stop, he says, because he thought a man in a red sleeveless dress, light blue eyeshadow and black nail polish would get beaten...
...economists predict that the hit to Hong Kong's travel and retail sectors will drag the city's 2003 GDP-growth rate down by one-fifth or more, a loss of more than $1 billion. Last week Stephen Roach, chief economist for Morgan Stanley, said SARS is "just another nail in the coffin" for the global economy, which is already stumbling from the Iraq war. He predicts a worldwide recession will begin this year...
...according to a study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. It was conducted by a team of doctors led by researchers from the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, Colo., and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. "We still need to nail down the right dose," says Dr. Donald Leung of National Jewish. But he and his partners believe that TNX-901 could be the first real treatment for peanut allergy ever developed...